Liz Sandals
Sandals at the 2017 ROMA Conference
Ontario MPP
In office 2003–2018
Preceded by	Brenda Elliott
Succeeded by	Mike Schreiner
Constituency	Guelph Guelph—Wellington (2003-2007)
Personal details
Born	Liz MacNaughton 1947 (age 77–78) Guelph,Ontario
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	David Sandals
Children	2
Residence(s)	Guelph,Ontario
Occupation	Teacher

Liz Sandals (néeMacNaughton; bornc. 1947)[1] is a politician inOntario, Canada. She was aLiberal member of theLegislative Assembly of Ontario from 2003 to 2018 who represented the ridings ofGuelph—Wellington andGuelph. She served in cabinet as thePresident of the Treasury Board until January 17, 2018 and previously served for three years asMinister of Education in the government ofKathleen Wynne.

Sandals was born and raised in theGuelph,Ontario area as Liz MacNaughton. Her father,Earl MacNaughton was the founding dean of the College of Physics at the University of Guelph. She graduated from Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute in 1966,^[2] and received aBachelor of Science degree from theUniversity of Guelph in 1969 as well as aMaster of Mathematics degree from theUniversity of Waterloo in 1971.^[3][4] She taught computer science at the University of Guelph.^[3] Sandals lives in Guelph with her husband David where they raised two children.

Sandals was elected to her local public school board in 1988, and was re-elected four times.^[3] From 1998 to 2002, she served as president of theOntario Public School Boards Association.^[3] Sandals was the recipient of the firstOutstanding Contribution to Education Award, granted by theOntario Principals' Council.^[5]

In 2003, she ran for theOntario Liberal Party nomination in the riding of Guelph, and defeated two long-time Liberals. While she was a past supporter of theProgressive Conservative Party and worked for the 1995 campaign of rival Tory MPPBrenda Elliott,^[6][7] Sandals defeated Elliott in theOntario provincial election of 2003 by 2,872 votes in the riding ofGuelph—Wellington. During the 2003-2007 session she served asparliamentary assistant for several portfolios includingEducation. After being re-elected in 2007 in the redistributed riding ofGuelph, she was again appointed as parliamentary assistant to portfolios including education and transportation. She was re-elected again in the 2011 election.^[8] On February 11, 2013, Sandals was appointed as the Minister of Education by Premier Kathleen Wynne.^[9] She was re-elected in2014.^[10] On June 13, 2016, she was appointed asPresident of the Treasury Board.^[11]

As Minister of Education, Sandals oversaw the transition to a new collective bargaining system in the education system in Ontario. This new 2-tier collective bargaining structure resulted in new teacher contracts being signed with all of the major teachers' unions in 2015. Sandals also oversaw changes to the sex education curriculum, the first update to the curriculum since the late 1990s.

On October 6, 2017, she announced that she would not seek re-election in 2018.^[1]

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